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March 12-14, 2019 - Half Moon Bay, CA
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Thursday, March 14 • 2:30pm - 3:00pm
Panel Discussion: Managing Competing Corporate Interests While Driving Coherent Communities - Tom Tofigh, AT&T; Malini Bhandaru, VMware; Prakash Ramchandran, DellEMC & Sujata Tibrewala, Intel

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AT&T as a Carrier has its corporate priorities set to serve consumers & enterprise through Open Source project participation in Linux-foundation and OpenStack. VMware as a Software Stack provider for Cloud Applications and Systems strives to extend it's market to edge and IIOT. Dell as a Infrastructure provider has to balance its act of supporting VMware & OpenStack RHOSP for x86-64 architecture by supporting Infrastructure drivers through OpenStack & VMware for compute, network and storage. Intel with its drive to support End to End performance for NFV, Edge & 5G has been working with almost every Open and Standard communities to enable their next generation CPU's, Network SmartNICs, FPGA and GPU's besides their commercial interest. The panelist from Intel, Dell, VMWare & AT&T will debate on their corporate interest versus community responsibility as how to steer through the trade-offs
Speakers
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Tom Tofigh

PMTS, AT&T
Tom is currently a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the AT&T’s Domain 2.0 architecture and planning Labs at AT&T. Tom has been responsible for planning and implementation of large-scale telecommunications equipment He has extensive experience that spans across many disciplines... Read More →
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Sujata Tibrewala

Network Technology Evangelist, Intel
Sujata Tibrewala is an Intel community development manager and technology evangelist who defines programs and training events to ensure that the network developer ecosystem works together toward a common goal: to drive SDN/NFV adoption in the industry using open source ingredients... Read More →
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Malini Bhandaru

Sr. Staff, VMware
Malini Bhandaru leads open source ML efforts at VMware's Open Source Technology Centre and has worked on IoT/Edge, Cloud Computing, faster cryptography implementations, designing processor power and performance features, and early eCommerce. She is currently involved with Kubeflow... Read More →
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Prakash Ramchandran

Staff - Telco Cloud Architect, DellEMC
Prakash Ramchandran M.Tech (EE) IIT Bombay, is a telecom Software and Standard participant with 35+ years of ICT Industry Experience. Represents the Independent Spirit of the Vendors and End Users community. Currently an Service Provider Engineering Staff at DellEMC, focused on Edge... Read More →

Thursday March 14, 2019 2:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
Salon 4
  Open Source Program Office / TODO Track